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Nieuport

Nieuport proper noun: a city and municipality of West Flanders, Belgium.

Proper noun

Nieuport

  1. A city and municipality of West Flanders, Belgium.
    • Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.1986 November, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022

Origin of Nieuport

Borrowed from French Nieuport, from Dutch Nieuwpoort.

Questions about Nieuport

What does Nieuport mean?
Nieuport means a city and municipality of West Flanders, Belgium.
What part of speech is Nieuport?
Nieuport is a proper noun.

Words near Nieuport in the dictionary

  1. Nietzscheism
  2. Nietzscheite
  3. Nietzschen
  4. Nietzschesque
  5. Nietzschism
  6. Nieuport
  7. Nieuw-Amsterdam
  8. Nieuwegein
  9. Nieuwkoop
  10. Nieva
  11. Nievas

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